For Best Actor: See "Flight"

What to see? If you’re at the multiplex and have a choice between Flight and Amour, see Flight. It’s more fun watching Denzel Washington play a drunk pilot than an old married couple succumb, slowly, to the ravages of time. Washington won’t win, of course, because this category, like best director, is a no-brainer.

Who might win? Daniel Day Lewis, who seems to only take roles in which, at the end, he’s assured to take home a little gold man.